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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 23 May 00 Volume 17 : Issue 87
Today's Topics:
[*] TidBITS#532/22-May-00
[*] Play it Cool 3.4J - Japanese Version
[*] Tex-Edit Plus 3.0.2J - Japanese Version
Hardware Query
Netscape erases History
Q: HP9100 internal SCSI CD-RW on Mac?
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Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 21:00:00 -0700
From: TidBITS Editors <editors@tidbits.com>
Subject: [*] TidBITS#532/22-May-00
TidBITS#532/22-May-00
Is Big Brother watching? Do you care? Read on for Adam's thoughts
on the split between the privacy community and the rest of the
world, based on novelist Neal Stephenson's keynote at CFP 2000.
Adam also covers the news from Apple's Worldwide Developer
Conference about Mac OS X, WebObjects, and QuickTime. Releases
last week include PowerMail 3.0.1, Farallon's 11 Mbps SkyLINE
wireless PC Card, and EIMS 3.0. (Please note: no issue next week!)
Topics:
MailBITS/22-May-00
Mac OS X Leaves the Station
Threat Models and Domination Systems
<http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-532.html>
<ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/issues/2000/TidBITS#532_22-May-00.etx>
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-532.etx; 33K]
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Date: 23 May 2000
From: Christopher Li <ChrisLi@Bridge1.com>
Subject: [*] Play it Cool 3.4J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the Play it Cool 3.4 package.
Play it Cool is a QuickTime and QuickTime VR movie player and simple editor.
It plays all types of QuickTime movies, including "mov", "MIDI",
"MPEG", "AVI", "VCD" and "QuickTime VR".
It also opens many image formats, like "PICT", "TIFF", "GIF", "JPEG"
and "PNG"; and sound formats, like "snd", "AIFF", "WAV", "MP2", "MP3"
and "AU". Note that QuickTime 4 is required to open some of these
formats.
It is PowerPC native, plays movies very smoothly and contains many
features not available in other movie players.
Users commonly report better playback performance from Play it Cool
than from other movie players.
CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSION (3.35):
=====================================
- Many small bug fixes.
- Now PowerPC only.
- Now requires Mac OS 8.0 or later and QuickTime 3.0 or later.
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/mov/play-it-cool-34-jp.hqx; 505 K]
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Date: 23 May 2000
From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com
Subject: [*] Tex-Edit Plus 3.0.2J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the Tex-Edit Plus package.
Tex-Edit Plus is a scriptable, styled text editor that fills the gap
between Apple's bare-bones SimpleText and a full-featured word
processor. It's fast, efficient, and has a clean, uncluttered interface.
It's also great for cleaning up text which is transmitted over the
Internet.
Tex-Edit Plus features: PowerPC native (fat), extensive munging
abilities, unlimited file size, Drag&Drop support, AppleScript support,
Word Services support, Speech Manager support, picture handling, sound
handling, movie handling, ability to create SimpleText Read-Only
documents, and much more. System 7.0 or better required.
NEW -- Tex-Edit Plus 3.0.2 fixes a bug that prevented use of Tex-Edit
when extensions were turned off. A few other minor bugs were removed.
Tex-Edit Plus 3.0 includes full support for viewing and
manipulating QuickDraw 3D models (images). This includes drag, drop,
insert, cut, copy, paste, print, etc.
Changes to the contents of the "Scripts" folder are now instantly
reflected in the Scripts menu (no relaunch needed). A new "do script"
command can be used to execute compiled scripts or to compile and
execute any script source code text (sample script included). Frontier
"menu sharing" has been enabled. Support for an external "Speech
Dictionary" to improve word pronunciation has been added (small sample
included). Default text size can now be set to any reasonable value and
all preference settings are fully scriptable (read/write). See the
Revision History for a list of all the other improvements and fixes.
[Archived as /info-mac/text/tex-edit-plus-302-jp.hqx; 1262 K]
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Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 23:33:18 -0400
From: Seeker <rfg@his.com>
Subject: Hardware Query
I have a new (actually factory rebuilt) Silicon Graphics 17" LCD Monitor.
My question regards how to turn it off...no, not as dumb as it sounds or at
least I hope not. ;->
On the assumption that replacing the on/off rocker switches on a good
quality surge suppressor is cheaper than replacing the on/off switch on a
monitor, I have been turning off my monitor by first putting the HD to
sleep with Sleeper then switching the monitor off off via its own surge
suppressor rocker switch.
However, when I got an HP Deskjet recently, the instructions were very
specific. Do NOT shut it down via a power strip/surge suppressor: "Using
a power strip, surge protector or wall outlet switch to turn the printer on
and off may cause premature failure."
No such instructions with the SGI monitor but I was wondering if anyone who
might understand the physics behind this could tell me whether I might be
best advised to power down the HD via Sleeper then shut off the monitor via
the monitor on/off switch OR power down with Sleeper then shut the monitor
off via the surge suppressor.
Many thanks,
Bob G.
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 08:44:59 +0200
From: "Michael S. Silverstein" <michaels@techunix.technion.ac.il>
Subject: Netscape erases History
Is there any way to prevent Netscape from erasing the History when
you close your window (or quit)?
On PCs Netscape retains your History for the specified number of days.
Thanks!
Michael Silverstein
Materials Engineering
Technion
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:14:54 +1200
From: "Markus Winter" <m.winter@auckland.ac.nz>
Subject: Q: HP9100 internal SCSI CD-RW on Mac?
Hi all,
does anyone know or has managed to use an HP9100 CD-RW on a Mac? Any answer
would be much appreciated ...
Markus
P.S. Please reply by e-mail since I don't manage to read every digest ...
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Tel: 373 7599 ext 3960
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